Kara Murray-Badal is the best choice for the Oakland Council

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Murray-Badal is the best
For the Oakland Council

At a time when politics feels exhausting and without joy, I am delighted to vote joyful for someone I think. Kara Murray-Badal, who comes for Oakland City Council District 2, inspires both the heart and the head.

She is a third generation Oaklander, raised in Eastlake and Crocker Highlands, with deep community roots and unrivaled references – Harvard, Wharton, Stanford. But it is not only his curriculum vitae – it is his vision: practical, thoughtful and hopeful.

Kara does not promise flashy and fast solutions. It offers clear and centered plans to combat public security, homelessness and Oakland’s budgetary crisis. She understands that authentic leadership means listening, being honest and working – no more – voices from the community.

It is not supported by companies. Kara is anchored, shiny and insufficient. She brings joy, heart and common sense to this race – and I am proud to classify her n ° 1.

Oakland deserves leaders who inspire and give birth. Kara Murray-Badal is this leader.

Andrew Park
Oakland

Support the invoice to make
Polluters pay the climate

California legislators have recently introduced SB 684, PAY Climate Superfund Act pollutters of 2025. Similar to recently adopted laws in New York and Vermont, this bill would require fossil fuel companies to pay their fair share of climate change damages.

Climate change makes extreme weather conditions and forest fires, such as those recently seen in Los Angeles, more likely, and fossil fuel burns is the main engine of climate change. As a family doctor in the bay region, I understand the impact that these devastating events can have on our health, especially for those who are very young, very old or who have underlying medical conditions.

California forest fires will continue to worsen, the more we delay the transition to clean and renewable energies and costs for fires and other climate -related disasters will continue to grow. We must urge our state legislators to support this important bill to preserve a healthy future for all Californians.

Matthew Fentress
Benicia

The without eyeshadow is
What makes us great

During Covid, a secondary classmate believed that Magi ment who denounced masking and vaccinations with Macho Fury. After Donald Trump’s example, he was wary of medical sciences and was sure that his prevention advice was a hoax. Yes, he fell ill, hospitalized and he recovered … a little. Long Covid continues to undermine his energy and play with his mind.

My classmate is one of Maga’s lucky believers who is not more than 300,000 Americans who died (out of 1,136,052 in total) whose death could have been avoided if he had followed the advice of medical experts.

Our whole country benefits from real facts openly shared. This truth and denying the facts does not make a health crisis disappear; This guarantees that more of us will become sick and may die.

We need truth, not polluted with lies. Do not let Maga health policies remove the special sauce that makes America really brilliant.

Bruce Joffe
Foothills

Trump criticisms are missing
their own solutions

Re: “Booker Rails at Trump in the speech of the Record Senate” (page A1, April 2).

I read the letter after the letter deploring the measures taken by President Trump and Doge to improve our government and our current deficits and our debt situation. Now Senator Cory Booker has been wasted a whole day in the American Senate complaining.

Seventy percent of Americans said we were on the wrong track and that we needed changes. What I have not seen is a single letter, or a comment from Booker, promoting an idea to solve the problem.

More than we will not produce better results. It is easy to complain. It is much more difficult to help. Where is the help?

John Griggs
Danville

Democrats need new
leader to unite the party

Re: “Lies and chaos threaten democracy” (page A6, March 28).

The letter from Marilyn Gray-Art has taken out the words from my mouth. I could not agree more. What is really alarming is all the Republicans who accompany the madness of Donald Trump. For the first time, we are embarrassed to admit where we come from when we travel.

Come on, Democrats, you need a new leader that you can all support and promote – you are too dispersed. When you can literally kidnap a person out of the street and make them disappear, we are in a police state. I am embarrassed to call myself an American and, even worse, a democrat. We cannot wait for the next elections either.

Patricia Torres
Concord

Trump’s “creaky wheel”
The approach is imperfect

The damage that the Trump administration inflicts on this country, unfortunately, could very well continue tirelessly.

However, the foreign policy of this intimidation administration is entirely made up of the approach “the grin wheel obtains fat”. Although this may initially provide results, Donald Trump will inevitably discover that too much creak simply replace the wheel.

Mark Gabin
Concord